Roger Barga
06-09-2007, 3:28 AM
I haven’t posted to the forum in several months, though I continue to visit regularly to get advice and inspiration from other projects. I figured it was high time to quit lurking and post some photos and details of recent projects.
This one is a storage cabinet for our guest bathroom. The body of the cabinet is constructed from what I believe is African Mahogany, which I picked up at a lumber sale – it was simply marked ‘mahogany’ but I doubt it is Honduras Mahogany. The door is frame and panel construction, with an MDF panel veneered with bookmatched Sapele Pomele and a solid ebony handle (photo 1). I have been using ebony for handles on cabinets throughout our house and it holds up quite well and is a joy to shape and buff to final shape. The door is attached to the cabinet with two Blum Hinges – it was the first time I used these hinges and was pleased with how easy it was to install and fine tune these hinges to adjust the fit of the door (photo 2). The cabinet was constructed from a single board of Mahogany using dowel joinery, using a simple jig I read about in one of Krenov’s books, and the back panel is ¼ plywood. I finished the cabinet with Waterlox, which despite the smell seems like a good finish for this wood and moisture this cabinet will have to deal with.
Lesson(s) learned the hard way… Originally I planned to hang the interior shelves using ¼ inch pins and I used a homemade shelving jig to align and drill the holes. After the cabinet was assembled and glued up I inserted the pins and hung the shelves and realized I’d misaligned the holes, badly. No way would the shelves work. I remembered an article in FWW (Sept/Oct ’96) on hanging shelves using sawtooth supports and realized I could use these supports, as a band aid, over the top of the existing holes. So this is how I ended up hanging the shelves and the supports mostly covered up the holes (photo 3). Next time I drill shelve holes I will mark a reference end (top or bottom) and be consistent…
Thanks for looking…
This one is a storage cabinet for our guest bathroom. The body of the cabinet is constructed from what I believe is African Mahogany, which I picked up at a lumber sale – it was simply marked ‘mahogany’ but I doubt it is Honduras Mahogany. The door is frame and panel construction, with an MDF panel veneered with bookmatched Sapele Pomele and a solid ebony handle (photo 1). I have been using ebony for handles on cabinets throughout our house and it holds up quite well and is a joy to shape and buff to final shape. The door is attached to the cabinet with two Blum Hinges – it was the first time I used these hinges and was pleased with how easy it was to install and fine tune these hinges to adjust the fit of the door (photo 2). The cabinet was constructed from a single board of Mahogany using dowel joinery, using a simple jig I read about in one of Krenov’s books, and the back panel is ¼ plywood. I finished the cabinet with Waterlox, which despite the smell seems like a good finish for this wood and moisture this cabinet will have to deal with.
Lesson(s) learned the hard way… Originally I planned to hang the interior shelves using ¼ inch pins and I used a homemade shelving jig to align and drill the holes. After the cabinet was assembled and glued up I inserted the pins and hung the shelves and realized I’d misaligned the holes, badly. No way would the shelves work. I remembered an article in FWW (Sept/Oct ’96) on hanging shelves using sawtooth supports and realized I could use these supports, as a band aid, over the top of the existing holes. So this is how I ended up hanging the shelves and the supports mostly covered up the holes (photo 3). Next time I drill shelve holes I will mark a reference end (top or bottom) and be consistent…
Thanks for looking…